Clothes-pounder.



JESSE EDWARD HARRISON, or LAMONI, rowA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1'?, 1913.

Patented J an. 6, 1914.

Serial No. 748,952.

T 0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JESSE EDWARD HAR- RisoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lamoni, in the county of Decatur and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Pounders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes pounders for laundrying purposes and comprises a simple and eicient device of this nature having various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically dened in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view through my improved washer. Fig. :2 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the outer conical shell, the parts carried thereby and shown in Fig. 2 being removed, and Fig. 4 is a det-ail sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 3.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a conical shell having an opening at its apex for the reception of the pipe B which is threaded and has two jam nuts C and D mounted thereon, one bearing upon the threaded portion of the pipe which projects through said opening at the top of the shell and the other inside of the latter and adapted to bear against the marginal edge of the opening, as shown clearly in section in Fig. l of the drawings. Fastened to the inner surface of said shell are the plates D', forming, with the wall of the shell, passageways E which, at their inner ends, are turned laterally and have openings F, each adapted to receive the upper open tapering end of a conical shaped shell H. Each of said shells is fastened to said pipe in any suitable manner as by means of rivets and forming means whereby, as the pipe is adjusted longitudinally through the medium of said nuts, t-he shells may be raised or lowered. By the provision of the adjustably mounted tube B which carries the funnel I-I, the lat-ter may be drawn up so that their upper open taperings ends will engage the openings in the kdownwardly extending tubular passageways D', or removed therefrom as may be desired. This adjustment of the tube makes it possible to remove the latter with the small conical-shaped shells for any purpose, such as for the purpose of cleansing the same or conveniently replacing the shells in the event of their being worn out and also aii'ords means whereby the tubular passageways may be conveniently cleansed after the tube has been removed. Each of said conical shaped shells H has an inwardly extending bead K formed by the expanding of the wall of the shell adjacent to its flaring end and forming a shoulder adapted to be engaged by the peripheral edge of the perforated bottom N2. A perforated plate N3, having a flange N, is frictionally held within the cone by means of the beading K and which may be removed, when desired, for the purpose of inserting soap within the cone, the lower end of which is adapted to be closed by the plate.

By the provision of a pounder made in accordance with my invention, a suction will be produced within the Shells which will cause a current of water and air to pass into the small shells, thence through the tubular passageways. As the water passes through the perforations into the interior of the conical Shells where the soap is contained a soap suds will be formed which, circulating through the passageways and clothes, may

tend to thoroughly cleanse and laundry the same.

The perforated bottoms of the conicalshaped cups or shells, it will be noted, are so constructed that they may be easily removed when desired for the purpose of placing soapl within the cups and replaced, thereby forming means whereby soapsuds may be formed by the operation of the washer, and equally distributed from the funnel-shaped members through the passageways and forced back and forth through the clothes being laundried.

By the manipulation of the jam nuts, the pipe with the small conical-shaped cups attached thereto may be easily removed when desired for any purpose.

What I claim to be new is A clothes pounder comprising a conical shell with its top truncated and apertured,

a tube adjustable through said aperture and provided with circumferential threads, nuts, one mounted above and the other below and in Contact with said truncated top and having threaded connection with the tube, a series of passageways about the inner wall of said shell and with openings at the lower ends adjacent to the bottom of the shell and their upper ends downwardly extending, a

series of conical shells fastened to said tube and having their upper ends open and engaging the downwardly extending` openings and the upper ends of said passageways be ingl held therein by said tube7 and perforated disks fastened to the lower portions of said 15 shells which are fastened to the tube, as set forth.

ln testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JESSE EDVARD HARRISON.

Titnesses CHARLES E. BLAIR,

FRANKLIN T. BRADFIELD.

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